Across Malawi, a silent crisis is unfolding behind prison walls--thousands of people are being punished without ever being ...

A Yarmouth man has been sentenced to six years and eight months in prison for convictions of sexual assault, forcible ...

Higgins, who served almost 23 months in pre-sentence custody, was sentenced to 29 months’ imprisonment, suspended after time ...

A prisoner has died in a high security Australian jail after being found unresponsive by staff, authorities have confirmed.

The former owner of a Milwaukee prenatal care company was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for healthcare fraud.

Jake Fenner, 32, has been handed a partially suspended sentence for causing the death of his father at their Moil home in ...

A revolving door that sees people with mental illness or drug addiction in and out of the Winnipeg Remand Centre illustrates the need for treatment, not jail, a criminal defence lawyer says. “If ...

Taxpayers face a massive bill to make the state’s maximum security prisons more comfortable for our worst inmates after drug ...

A drug-fuelled man told a woman he was going to stab her after she confronted him outside her home as he repeatedly kicked her son's car ...

A court in the Limburg city of Hasselt has sentenced a man to 10 years imprisonment after he was found guilty of drugging and raping his wife over a period of years. The 54-year-old was already in ...

Katelin McGillivary has been sentenced to five years in prison for being an accessory after the fact to murder, after the ...